Faculty of the Department |
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Faculty |
Sean Kelly
Chair |
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Office Hours:
Research Interests: 20th century French and German philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of cognitive science, Philosophy of perception, Imagination and memory, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of literature
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| Selim Berker |
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Office Hours: Tuesday, 2-4 PM
Research Interests: Ethics, Epistemology |
| Matthew Boyle |
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Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Kant, German idealism |
| Cheryl Chen |
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Office Hours:
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Epistemology |
Warren Goldfarb
Head Tutor |
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Office Hours: Tuesday, 2-3:30 PM
Research Interests: Mathematical logic, History of analytic philosophy (particularly Frege, Russell, Carnap, Quine, and Wittgenstein [early and late]), Interrelationships of logic and philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophical logic |
| Güven Güzeldere |
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Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Functional neuroimaging of change detection, Unconscious processing, Pain processing, Consciousness and qualia, Deception in animals, Artificial intelligence models |
| Edward J. Hall |
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Office Hours: Monday, 12-2 PM
On leave Spring 2012 term
Research Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of science |
| Rusty Jones |
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Office Hours: Monday, 12:30-2:30 PM
Research Interests: Ancient Philosophy |
| Frances Kamm |
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Office Hours: Tuesday, 5:30-6:30, Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Bldg, 79 JFK St., Room 344; by appointment
Research Interests: Normative ethics, Bioethics, Practical ethics |
| Peter Koellner |
Photo credit: Katya Botchkina |
Office Hours: Tuesday, 2-4 PM
Research Interests: Mathematical logic, Set theory, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of physics, Early analytic philosophy, Philosophy of logic and language |
Christine Korsgaard
Director of Graduate Studies |
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Office Hours: Thursday, 2-4 PM; please write to me for an appointment.
Research Interests: Moral philosophy and its history, Practical reason, The nature of agency, Personal identity, and Human/animal relations |
| Douglas Lavin |
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Research Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of action, History of ethics, Philosophy of law |
| Jeffrey McDonough |
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Office Hours: Monday, 2-4 PM
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, Philosophy of science, Medieval philosophy, Contemporary metaphysics and epistemology |
| Richard Moran |
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Office Hours: Tuesday, 2:30-4 PM
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Moral psychology, The nature of testimony, Aesthetics, Philosophy of literature, later Wittgenstein |
| Bernhard Nickel |
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Office Hours:
On leave 2011-2012 academic year
Research Interests: Philosophy of language, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of mind. |
| Mark Richard |
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Office Hours: Thursday, 12:30-2 PM; by appointment
Research Interests: Philosophy of language, Philosophical logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology |
| Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr. |
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Office Hours: Monday, 2:30-4 PM
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, Political philosophy |
| Amartya Sen |
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Research Interests: Economics, Political philosophy |
| Tommie Shelby |
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Office Hours: Thursday, 2-4 PM, Barker 242
Research Interests: African American philosophy, Philosophical perspectives on race and racism, Social and political philosophy, Marxist social theory |
Susanna Siegel
Placement Officer |
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Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of language, Epistemology |
Alison Simmons
MBB Adviser
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Office Hours:Monday, 3-4 PM; Wednesday, 2-3 PM
Research Interests: Early modern philosophy, Natural philosophy, Theories of mind, Medieval philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of psychology |
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Regular Visiting Faculty |
| Derek Parfit |
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All Souls College, Oxford
(Spring term only, next in 2012)
Research Interests: Ethics, Philosophy of mind |
| Philippe Van Parijs |
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Université catholique de Louvain
(Spring term only, next TBA)
Research Interests: Political philosophy |
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Visiting Faculty 2011-2012 |
| Ned Block |
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NYU
(Spring term only)
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science |
| David Sussman |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Spring term only)
Research Interests: Ethics, Political philosophy, Moral psychology, Kant, and Post-Kantian German Idealism. |
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Affiliated Faculty |
| Gennaro Chierchia |
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Department of Linguistics |
| Michael Rosen |
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Department of Government |
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Other Harvard Faculty Offering Instruction
in the Department |
| Peter E. Gordon |
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Department of History |
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College Fellows & Postdoctoral Researchers |
| Rosa Cao |
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Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Farid Masrour |
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College Fellow
Office Hours: Monday, 1-4 PM
Research Interests: Philosophy of perception, Intersection of Philosophy of mind, Epistemology & the History of philosophy |
| Sebastian Watzl |
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Mind/Brain/Behavior (MBB) Postdoctoral Fellow
Research interests: Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of psychology & neuroscience |
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Emeriti/ae |
| Stanley Cavell |
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Research Interests: Intersection of Analytical tradition with: the Continental tradition; American philosophy; the arts; and Psychoanalysis |
| Charles Parsons |
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Research Interests: Mathematical logic, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of logic and language, Kant, Historical figures in the foundations of mathematics |
| Hilary Putnam |
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Research Interests: Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of natural science, Philosophy of language, Philosophy of mind |
| Israel Scheffler |
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Research Interests: Philosophical interpretation of language, symbolism, science and education |
| Gisela Striker |
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Research Interests: Ancient philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy (especially epistemology and ethics), Aristotelian logic |
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